Vasantha Kumari
Last Activity: 11 Years ago
A basic generalization of scalar and vector quantities
is a tensor. We assign zero rank to a scalar and first rank to a vector.
While looking at the number of directions that we utilize
to describe the quantities it is the order or rank of a tensor. Properties with
first rank will be described by 3 x 1 column vector and two directions are
second rank tensors.
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